Bessuéjouls

Aveyron · CC Comtal Lot et Truyère · INSEE 12027

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 17.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bessuéjouls (INSEE 12027) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC Comtal Lot et Truyère. Population 222 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 16,630 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.49	10	4.91
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR DE LA FORGE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BAR DE LA FORGE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 279 2023: 222 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 250 (2012) → 222 (2023): -11.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 224 (1990) → 222 (2023): -0.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 17.3 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.2 km NEPrimary school — 2.6 km EBakery — 2.7 km EPharmacy — 2.7 km EGP — 2.8 km E Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Espalion): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Espalion): 1.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Espalion): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Espalion): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Espalion): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 46▸

Days at or below 0 °C 65

Muggy days a summer 1.7

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 46 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-COME-D'OLT weather station, 8 km away at 380 m; the village itself is at 338 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-COME-D'OLT, 8 km away at 380 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,014 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ESPALION, 3.5 km away at 360 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12027/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12027/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12027/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12027/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12096
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sennevières	37	313 km NW	226	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Sarragachies	32	241 km W	217	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %
Vitrolles	05	256 km E	221	22.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Chatain	86	249 km NW	240	13.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-du-Lac	71	218 km NE	234	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Gancourt-Saint-Étienne	76	564 km N	231	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 10 % · winter 82 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-du-Lac	71	218 km NE	234	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sarragachies	32	241 km W	217	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %
Chatain	86	249 km NW	240	13.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Vitrolles	05	256 km E	221	22.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Sennevières	37	313 km NW	226	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Gancourt-Saint-Étienne	76	564 km N	231	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 10 % · winter 82 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Bessuéjouls's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cazevieille	34	119 km SE	233	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Mérindol-les-Oliviers	26	195 km E	208	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Roquedur	30	97 km SE	266	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières	30	111 km SE	194	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Vitrolles-en-Lubéron	84	242 km E	217	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Francillon-sur-Roubion	26	187 km E	181	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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